Lesson 1, Getting Rolling!

First off, we would like to personally welcome you to Wealthy Affiliate. I am Kyle, co-founder of Wealthy Affiliate and I am going to be the one walking you through the training and the process of building a successful business online.

Carson, the other co-founder works more with the technical team (close to 30 people) so you will see a bit less of him, although he is still very much active here within the community every day.

Here is a photo of us and our families below (me and my family on LEFT, Carson and family on RIGHT). :)

Our goal in the early stages here is EARN your trust. We realize that the industry is full of companies that are not all that trustworthy and it has been our mission over the past 14 years to do things differently. Wealthy Affiliate has been around since 2005, and during this 14 year period we have helped close to 1.7 MILLION people during this time!

The community here is full of amazing people, with a lot of expertise. I know you are going to quickly realize that. In fact, you are going to be able to tap into this knowledge an expertise at any point as you move forward in the training.

I assure you that you have definitely made the right choice in joining the community here at Wealthy Affiliate, you are going to love it here and you are going to quickly realize we care about YOU and your success online!

In the coming days and weeks we are going to be showing you how online success works and we will help you realize your own potential within the Internet space to earn revenue and leverage the internet to grow a business.

Before we continue, we want to point out a few important things:

(1)Anyone Can Accomplish Success Online. There are now over 4 BILLION people using the Internet, regardless of the direction you head online there is a very large number of people there that you can connect with and leverage to create a business online. Members here at WA succeed at the highest rate out of any platform online!

(2)Anything NEW Can "Appear" to be Overwhelming at First. Like riding a bike, it is normal to feel overwhelmed and even "fall" a few times when getting rolling. Don't worry, you will quickly get the hang of things! Stick with Wealthy Affiliate and you will achieve, and far exceed your goals.

(3) No Technical or Prior Online Business Experience Required. If you have experience that is great, but it is definitely not a requirement here at Wealthy Affiliate. Everything related to online business can be learned here within your membership and you definitely do not need to be a "techie".

(4) Success is a Journey. Success is very cumulative by design. This means that everything you do now, and every step you take will contribute towards your personal success in the future. An exciting journey does lie ahead and the effort you put forth now will pay off later and often times forever!

A Quick Look at How YOU Will Be Creating Success

Success online is at the core a 4 step process nothing more complex than this and this is exactly what you are going to be learning here at Wealthy Affiliate. Here is a quick diagram breaking down the process.

Broken, down, the process looks like this:

Step 1: Choose an Interest. This can be anything at all, any interest, passion or even something you have no personal experience with.

Step 2: Build a Website. Your website is your foundation and we have the most sophisticated and feature rich website and hosting platform here at Wealthy Affiliate in SiteRubix.

Step 3: Attract Visitors. You are going to be learning all about how to get traffic and visitors to your website. The first focus is FREE traffic and there is A LOT of it out there.

Step 4: Earn Revenue. Once you have people on your site and traffic, you can earn revenue. There are over 50 ways you can monetize traffic online!

As you go through the training, this is going to be covered in detail. As mentioned, absolutely EVERYTHING you need is here at WA to facilitate this process!

Before we go any further...

We want to give you two simple pieces of advice within the Wealthy Affiliate community.

Piece of Advice #1: Do not be afraid to ask questions! There is 100,000's of people here within WA and many, MANY experts. You need help, please ask!

Piece of Advice #2:Take action on what you learn! Action leads to success. You could read and watch the training until you are blue in the face, but if you never take action on it you won't achieve any success.

We don’t want to put any pressure on you and definitely do not want to overwhelm you as you get started, so we are going to give you three simple tasks to perform (as noted below). Spend a few minutes today and complete these tasks! :)

You are currently reading lesson 1 of a 10 lesson Getting Started Course. This course is going to step you through the process of getting started. It will answer all of the questions that you have about earning money on the Internet, and will reveal exactly how to do it.

If you ever need to get back to your training, simply click the Get Started Here button within the side menu. This "smart" button will always take you back to your last completed task and you will also see your progress through the training.

Click the "You Are Here" to get back into your training at any time.

Your Current Tasks :)

In this Lesson you will become involved and immersed within the awesome community at Wealthy Affiliate. This is a community that cares about your success, and one where you will create wonderful relationships within the industry. You will soon learn that you can SUPERCHARGE your learning and ultimately, your success by being active in the community, and immersing yourself.

This starts with uploading a picture, adding a few words about yourself in your profile description, and getting involved in a live chat with others. These tiny steps are referred to as your "Account Setup" tasks which we will discuss below in a little more detail.

Right now, there is no reason to delay your training, let's get started with your Tasks for today.

Task 1: Watch The Walk Through Video Below

Your first task today is to watch the Wealthy Affiliate Walk-through video. This video will walk you through Wealthy Affiliate, show you how to find your way around, show you how to get help, and ultimately show you how WA will help you succeed within the online world.

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At any time if you have questions as you are watching the Wealthy Affiliate Walkthrough video, simply leave them in the comments section below the video and we will be more than happy to help you out. Remember, there is a TON of help available whenever you need it.

Task 2: Complete Your Account Set-up

Your final task for today is to set-up your Wealthy Affiliate account. I have created a quick video walk-through showing you how to set-up your account:

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This may seem very simple (and it is), but there are definite reasons that you are going to want to complete the account set-up process. Here are some benefits to setting up your account:

Leads to better networking within the community

Your “followers” within the community will go up at least 5x (in some cases)

People are more willing to help you if you have a profile

Adds a level of credibility within the community

Shows others that you are serious about SUCCESS

Immerse yourself within Wealthy Affiliate and you are going to experience a lot more success. It is a rare day within WA when you don’t get to brush shoulders with millionaire marketers hanging out within the community, so take this serious and make your profile (people’s first impression of you) a good one.

Task #3: Understand Your Membership

If you joined for FREE, you currently have a Starter membership . This is the starting point of your success online. You get a good deal of access with the Starter level membership, but you need to know that there is MUCH MORE to be found at WA.

There are huge benefits to going premium when you are ready. Your last task for today is to take a second to learn about our Premium membership and how it differs from the Starter program.

You are in good hands here at Wealthy Affiliate regardless of whether you are Starter or Premium.

Make us a Promise OK?

We want you to make us a promise today. We want you to give Wealthy Affiliate a chance first and foremost. We know that you may have had bad experiences online in the past and we want you to allow us to prove ourselves to you.

We care about YOU and we care about YOUR personal success more than you think.

Do we have a deal? :)

Again, we want to personally welcome you to the community and we look forward to helping you achieve success online, and far exceeding your expectations :)

Your friends,

Kyle & Carson

PS. When you are done your tasks, simply check them off below and then move onto the next lesson.

In the next lesson we are going to be talking all about Making Money! :)

Top Helpers in This Lesson

Hi everyone in WA community everybody you my teacher and senior then me I respect you all bottoms off my harts running biggest wa community very nicely help me to teach my better and easy ways so I can understand each and everything properly I really appreciate everyone to have here with you thanks have good one

Website soloseniorsforum.com
Not sure how ask this but my site shows the Title and then to the right home, about Russ, Privacy Policy.
Is the Title part of the menu? I want the items to the left and under the Title
2. I want to add image to about Russ and size so it fits

I'm using mobile to have a look and I think it looks fine. See the attachment is the screenshot of your post from my mobile.

Title is your homepage name and most of the time by default if you click on the title at any page/ post, it will lead you back to the homepage.

There are many ways to manage your website name(title) and menu bar. I'm not familiar with it and it depends on which WordPress them you're using.

Try to Google research how to change website name and menu bar position in WordPress, may probably shows some relevant result to solve this issue.

2. Since you already publish this post, you only able to edit it via WordPress editing platform. If you log in to your website WordPress admin page, at left side, you'll find Posts. Click on it and will refresh the page and then show you a list of posts you created. Click on your desire post and you can go to edit mode.

There are small icon like a image on top of the editing writing area, click on it then can insert any image at any desire part of your text.

Remember to click update at right hand side to update the new content.

I hope I answered part of your questions. :)

p.s. I like your About Russ post as it is very sincere, so I can't help myself to leave my little comment at your post. :)

Must have done something wrong. I linked my WA account with Jaaxy (from within WA). Now when I try to do a keyword search, I get a page that says I already have a Jaaxy Starter account. 3 times now I've "downgraded" to Jaaxy Lite, which is more feature-rich than the Starter flavor. Not working. And, when I click the "Open Jaaxy" button on the Keywords page, I'm taken to a page to sign up for Jaaxy. Very confused by this, as Jaaxy doesnt offer the same level of access that I get here as a WA premium member, and the Jaaxy site doesn't recognize my WA login (obviously). What am I doing wrong?

Thanks for your response, Dave. Unfortunately, that's not working for me. Jaaxy wants login credentials that are not aligned with my WA login. It does appear that I need to create an account on Jaaxy, which will obviously not be linked with WA, and will not be Jaaxy LITE, unless I pay them for it.

My steps are,
1. In WA, click on the right column "Research" the Jaaxy icon. Then it'll expend with many Jaaxy function.
2. I click on Jaaxy Dashboard the blue button. See attachment screenshot
3. A new tab window will be opened and it'll be Jaaxy site and I'm logged in already.

If you are already in this step and it doesn't work, go to the technical support, the SiteSupport at the Website section, you submit your issue. The WA technical team does really quick job to feedback to you.

I have used word press before and I still can't get me head round it even with the video my site looks nothing like the video I am on widgets and side bar i have no side bar all down the centre ?? this web-site stuff is not my strong point at all rough road we will get there.

Having a bit of a challenge choosing a Theme for my new web site. I have another web site and had no trouble choosing a theme that worked. It's exactly the opposite now. Very frustrated because I've wasted several hours trying to get one to work. Have contacted Tech support but I'm not getting anywhere. What's different this time is that I want to change the picture in the header as well as change the font and or placement of the text so that it looks how I want it to. Are there tutorials that I can watch that can help me figure out how to use these themes? There are some really cool looking themes, I just can't figure out how to make them work and the help I'm asking for isn't working either.
Thanks,
Dina:)

Hey Dina, I had and still face the same problem. I still get to do little adjustments as i move on. I believe you have some experience with website building already, so would suggest you move through the training and gain time. You can return to theme editing from time to time. This blog by @Apina might help. 08 Themes: Free or Premium

Thanks. I had thought about it, but I guess wanted to try something different that had some different options. I just went ahead and switched to the same theme I use on my other site and it looks good except I'd like to increase the size of the font and not finding an option to do that yet. Thanks for suggesting it. Maybe I'll try and fiddle with a different theme somewhere down the road. I appreciate your reaching out.
Dina:)

Awesome video!! Choosing a niche has always been difficult for me. I have thought of 3 niches:

Personal Development/Self-Improvement: Mental health is important to me as I suffer from anxiety and depression
Educational/Special Needs: I worked with special needs for 4yrs and loved working with these students &
Making money online: Making money online has always been something I'd like to do

I don't want to start all niches at once.
What do you think I should start off with first? Suggestions pls.

I like to make a difference in people's lives and become a Life Coach later on, more so Life Coach for kids.

Hey Helen, if you are starting out as new then I would definintely recommend picking a niche that you are passionate about and know sometihng about.

This is because it is easier to write posts on subjects you know well whilst learning about all the other aspects of website and online business building rather than trying to learn about the niche subject as well.

Only do one site to start with but as you become more experienced you will be able to branch out to another site if youwish.

Hi Helen,
Paul has said it all. You will truly be better off choosing a niche that you’re passionate about.
Basically, it’s all about being able to create good and detailed contents. And when you choose a niche that you’re passionate about, then you’ll be rest assured of being able to create contents over and over again...
At this early stage, you need your passion to keep you going...

@AwhituGirl would you mind talking to me briefly about niches and products that are the gold when targeting female consumers. I need some fresh ideas to reinnovate and build on to that are from an affiliate mindset but that of a women’s perspective, just message me at a time your not busy if you wouldn’t mind helping me.

I watched the Navigation lesson on customizing our website. I had selected the "Skin" theme, which I had posted content for "About Me". However, I simply cannot figure out how to get my top menus to appear at all. Cannot figure out the widgets either. Just lost at this point.

Log in to your site. On the dashboard go to Appearance > Menus. In the left column you will see all your "stuff" (posts, pages, categories, etc.). Select what you would like to include and click the "Add to Menu" button. Those items should appear in the right column. Make sure to select "primary menu". Then go back to your site's homepage and refresh. You should now see your new menu.

Hi guys.really feeling awesome to be here.I am passionate about stock market,cryptocurrency,I have also great passion about to make money online. I have a site for this.Just created out of passion. Not much traffic. Not so good at optimizing site. I am a health professional also. A clinician. So I always wondered what should my niche be? Money or health?

Money and health niches are HUGE. I do NOT recommend you going into both.

Pick ONE, and then narrow that niche way down.

For example if you went with make money online, then you would concentrate on stock market and crypto if you'd like.

I would not start more than one site unless you're already earning on one because these are highly competitive niches you're picking which means they take longer to see results as well as needed to put in a LOT more work to see those results.

When choosing a niche for the first time, how broad or narrow does it need to be? For example, if I want to create content relating to soccer, do I pick the entire sport or pick something more specific like soccer gear (even if my intent is to create content on wide-ranging topics within the game)?

I would recommend if you want your site to cover a variety of soccer topics that you just make the site general soccer and not try to narrow down too much. You want your niche to be general enough that you can create a lot of content but not so general that it is not obvious what the niche is.
For example, you probably don't want a niche of general sports information, that is too wide. Quality soccer ball brands might be too narrow, as it limits you to talking only about soccer balls. Soccer as a niche would probably be good.
But its really up to you!

My advice is to pick a specific niche, but name your domain something broad. That way your initial focus is clear, but your site can evolve over time. Kyle agrees with me! Succeeding With Golf Balls, Scaling With Shoes! Let me know if that helps Benjamin, or we can talk about your ideas more specifically.

Hey Nathaniell, my thinking is that I want my website to be more of a blog, talking about a wide range of topics within the niche and not necessarily promoting any products with every article I would publish. For example, if my niche is soccer, I would like to create content on topics like teams, players, opinion pieces - where there might be affiliate links, but not explicitly promoting them. In addition to that, I would create content doing reviews of soccer memorabilia or gear, where I would link to affiliates.
Would this be considered too broad? Should I narrow down to something like soccer gear, and create content exclusively that pertains to soccer gear and nothing else?

Hi I have Just signed up WA but have been trying all kinds of platforms for Months till i found WA. So I have got amazon Affiliate set up and I got 2 Web-site Domain and Hosting set Up. After dealing with some other companies not was not very good I wish I found WA 3 Months ago. Will have problems link up my sites??

Remember to back up your sites before you move them. I recommend All in One Migration plugin for this., but there are many others. As far as problems, it will depend on your present hosting. Some of them will be easy others will be hard. I recommend changing your nameservers to move them here. That way if you want to move them somewhere else it is easy to do. I have a train on moving your site with All in One Migration. Moving a Website From 1 Domain to Another Domain .
Dave

The only caution is that when you move the sites with the nameserver method it will delete your site. I would start a siterubix website and move a copy of your website there. Make sure everything is good. Then I would move the nameservers to WA. Restore the site on the moved url and check it to make sure everything is good. When you are satisfied, delete the ssiterubix site and you are good to go.

Hi there, my first question about web site building. This is the first time I build a site, and I am a bit stuck on choosing a niche. At the same time I would like to go ahead and try just to fiddle with the SiteBuilder platform “SiteRubix” but I am scared to make mistakes…will I be able to edit the web site or to delete it and make a new one considering that with the Starter membership I only have 2 website available?

Hi - yes, feel free to have a go. Everything can be edited by going into WordPress once you have built your site. And if you wish to delete it, go to Websites, View Details, then scroll to the bottom of the page for the delete option. You will still have 2 websites, you don't "lose" any.

Hi there,
Don't be afraid to do mistakes, there is always a solutions.
Specially with WordPress, it's very flexible and you can preview, go back to previous versions.
Experiment as much as you want.
With all expert in this community you are in very good hands ;)

Oh, I have to upgrade to get to level 2, dang. I really wanted this website to work and I actually thought a majority of the training was free... I definitely wanted premium and was hoping to start making money with this business so I could afford it. Well dang. Everyone here was very nice and welcoming, thank you for that ♥

That's all covered in the training. You get the first level for free, and if you follow the training and complete the task checklist at the end of each lesson, you will have a site up and running and know how to add content by the time you get to lesson 10.

I finished the course work. I guess I was initially confused. The first video shows a website for football helmet snacks (showing product being sold through affiliates) and then the last video shows me how to look up keywords for posts. So I guess, I'm unsure as to what it was I was supposed to be selling or well doing on my website.. just affiliate links to WA?

I am trying to understand how a commission would be paid to Kyle for a Football Snack Helmet. I have purchased books on Amazon and there I am given a choice to buy from Amazon or from another seller. I sometimes buy through Amazon and sometimes through another seller. Is that what it means to buy through a seller affiliate link?

When you arrive at Amazon directly from your browser and buy something, no one has recommended you, so all the profit is for Amazon.
But if you come to Amazon through an ad or a link in a blog, for example, the review of a product, it is highly likely that the author of that blog has generated a hyperlink that includes her/his affiliate ID.
Amazon (or any other company with an affiliate program) will then detect that you came to its portal through that link and if you buy something then the one that recommended you, that is, the affiliate to the program, receives a commission for that sale.
I hope this helps to understand this point better.

Once you sign up for an Amazon Affiliate account, what you do is go into the system and you find a football snack helmet (or whatever you're promoting) and you can get a link from Amazon.

That link is tied to your account. Now, you put the link on your site (with good, helpful content preferably) and when someone finds your post, clicks on your football snack helmet link and makes a purchase, you get a commission.

Anyone selling products on Amazon as a seller will have their share of the profit from the sale as well as Amazon will have. If you promote Amazon product through your amazon affiliate link you will get your commission in any scenario, from the seller or from Amazon.

Thank you Christina,
I think I follow you. There will be a built in link on my website that directs the reader to Amazon, or whatever company. It seems the reader could decide to go directly to Amazon later if they wanted to. Maybe, clicking on the website link is more likely if it is a less well known company.

So, my conclusion is that the reader must click on your link. What if they decide to purchase later, and go directly to the company site? Would the sale be lost?

Hello Kayl, this is poma . Since I start to create the website I was out of my home town so I wouldn't able to finished my training classes to be premium member and get 1st Month Discount. I just see limited time almost done. Would you able to add some extra time to get 1st Month discount. Again thank you for your support.

Oh my goodness! I get it, now! Thank you for this video. I realize that due to my past dabbling around I got confused about what a niche was and never got clarification as to what to do with a niche and/or how to do a niche. It's so much more than just promoting products, which I had learned (or misunderstood) was simply reviewing products. I didn't want to pay to create a website in which I simply reviewed products. Why would anyone come to my page? I had no credibility on the internet. Nobody knows me. (And I kind of like it that way.)
Thank you. I think I can do this. I am definitely going forward with this program. You have cleared things up for me.

Trying to choose my first niche is really exciting so far! Right off the bat I'm torn between four things I'm super excited about... I'll try not to take too long making my initial choice, but I'll probably branch out into all four (and more!) with different sites eventually. This is exciting!

hi every one...im new here and I quietly don't know what to do,just I'm getting interested how and to know more here in wealthy affiliate.im willing to learned step by step on how to gain money through online business and I choose to be in wealthy affiliate.i hope you can help me up here..thank you and more power,god bless

Hello to everyone in the WA community!I am also new to this community. I have been trying to learn how to make money online for months now with no success. This is the first program that seems to be completely user based compared to all the others I have looked at. I am very excited to get my online business up and running. Good Luck to all the new users I am happy there is people like me starting out.

Several months ago when I was building out my first site, I changed the admin user to my name, making sure that whenever I create new content I always choose to create it using my name, not the admin user. I've found that even though I do that, admin still shows up in the comments section of my posts when I respond back to people's comments. What went wrong?

Rupert - after 7 days, you can still access your SiteRubix website(s) and the Level 1 courses (including Bootcamp), and you can still read everything that's going on. BUT you lose access to all communication - no Live Chat, no blogs, no comments.

You should use your WA blog to communicate with others in the community and let people know about your progress, your successes, and ultimately your experience with online business.

You can also create a helpful tutorial on something that you think will be helpful to other WA members as they build their online businesses.

So I decided to start over since I'm not so stoked on my chosen niche, having a real hard time coming up with content. I decided to go for something I'm much more passionate about and maybe that will bring me success. My question is: If I create a website with the niche being "Football products," and like Jay started off with a small niche like "football snack helmets," can I expand my niche later on, promoting t-shirts for instance on the same web-site or would I need to create a whole different website for the football themed t-shirts?

Today just I made account in WA.
I just in 1st lesson.
I think anytime I can access my account in WA to continue my class.
My target is to do some business to earn extra online in my additional time from home.
Anyway I think these classes are digestible 4 me to follow you.
I don't know what I can do here and my role is what here within it.
Anyway keeping hope.

Question if you allow me:
Within Lesson 8 there is an explanation of creating lists I want to know that each list what can contain?
I've created a site dedicated to real estate and want to specialty listings like
List of houses
List of land
A specialized list to showcase the latest methods of building houses
List of specialists in home construction work

Hello there, I'm afraid I'm not yet an expert on WA's training program. So I can't help you with this one. I'd suggest you directly ask the admin @Kyle such questions. He'll be able to help you. Love your dedication though. Keep up the great work!

Hi. I think that I could found my first niche.
Its about an specific topic in health and I found it as an affiliate program powered by "Comission Junction"(CJ). The Alexa´s rank is 0 and the sale comission is 100%. Its looks nice for starting.
My question is: I need to do an account with CJ in his website independent from WA?
Thanks!

Still very much a newbie here! I'm trying to set up my widgets and have watched Kyle's video several times and done everything as instructed, yet my widgets e.g. search, don't show on my front 'Home' page. Is this because of the template I am using or have I doing something wrong?

Hey guys so im still doing my training and i just posted my privacy policy, now in the training it says to make it as a page which i did, because it doesnt allow for people to comment on the policy but when i check my website i see a leave a reply option, so...im confused are people able to leave on comment or does it depend on which theme i used?

I am wondering about unseen additional costs on our part coming
from the companies or organizations for whom we are representing. (or maybe from you folks). I know that many times some costs by some programs
are not revealed until we have no choice but to pay. Are you going to let us know if that may be the case for us?

We're all members just like you :) There aren't additional costs to becoming an affiliate for a merchant. And there aren't hidden training modules coming up in WA that are suddenly an extra cost to get them without you knowing about it. The only thing extra you'd pay for here past going premium are registering and buying domains and if you wanted to upgrade Jaaxy. It's all very transparent here.

There is an upgrade that has you choose to become premium or stay as you are now. It's $19 discount first month, $49 monthly after that or $359 yearly for one full year. There is even a black Friday sale where yearly is offered for $299.

Some affiliates programs will only allow you to promote their products for a subscription fee. But those are optional since many programs are absolutely free to promote.

When you decide whether or not to go premium here, you will be taught exactly how to find the right products without fees to promote for the area that you are interested in.

The Premium is $19 the first month, then it is $49 per month after the first month. This includes absolutely everything you need to create and grow a business online from the training, weekly live classes, he support, the tools, the websites/hosting, the mentoring, network, exclusive access to all updates...you name it.

We also have a 6 month option for $234 which works out to be $39 per month when paid in full, and a yearly option of $359 which is a big discount and that works out to be $29 per month when paid in full. You can choose either or.

The only other potential cost could be a domain name (if you want a domain of your own), they run around $14 per year.

Hope this helps you out Michael and if you have any further questions let me know.

Eeeeek! I just bought my domain name. I've been prevaricating about which niche to choose. I've done a few blogs before and none of them have made me any real money (just bits and pieces here and there). So I wanted to get this one right. I realised I was going round in circles a bit, so I just went for it. I hope it's going to be ok. I've decided to go for a blog about treating panic attacks. I have a background in psychology so I have some knowledge.

I was thinking about treating anxiety, but I felt that was too broad, so I narrowed it down to helping people with panic attacks. I hope this one is successful. I know that blogs / sites are very time consuming and I want this one to do well.

it is a good niche, a bit broad for my liking.
it would be akin to using a scatter gun rather than a riflle.
so diluting your efforts.
maybe you could target a few small areas rather than being so general.
i can understand that how to achieve your goals/dreams can coer a lot of topics, but this is the downfall.
your headlines would be so generic that people may not click to find out the info.
or if you make them specific, you may feel that you are not talking to everyone.
if you target one smaaler area at the start and gain traction, you could epand into another area in the future onthe same site.
good luck
phil

Thank you very much for the help + information! It means so much to me that you took the time to respond so eloquently to my question. I think I'm going to take you up on your advice and narrow my focus a bit. Thanks again! :)

Niche is clearly understood by your introduction. My passion is traveling and I love to motivate friends about traveling by giving them information on how to plan tours and also explaining them the benefits of traveling. I like to cover all the related information on travel. Do you think it's a broad topic as a niche?

Hello, so it seems I have a similar problem common to those just starting out. I need help with my niche! I'm sure I'm over complicating it but I get lost trying to figure out which way to go. I have many hobbies such as gardening, fishing, making my own lip balms and tinctures and I am also very much into herbs, essential oils and natural alternative to medicine. All VERY broad categories. Are any of these good to use for a niche? If so does anyone have any ideas on narrowing down a niche to any of these?
Any help is appreciated :)

Hi, i think you just need to do what you like the most. what is your passion? whats the thing that give you goose bumps and feel super happy everytime your do it? if you found it, then you can start from there writing a blog of it.

Hi Kyle, so I have the very common problem of picking a niche so i'm thinking of having a generic site (generic domain name) where I can categorise and write about differetnt things. Do you see any problem / cons with that please?

I'm wondering if I choose music as my niche, can I promote an album or a single? Like can I talk about how a song helped me get through my bad days? Or how the lyrics of a song resonated with me, and then promote the song with an affiliate link? Are there any kind of this affiliate programs out there?

Hey guys! New to this website and had some problems choosing a niche but after contemplating it through I came up with mainly three: Sleep quality/ Stress Management, Hiking/ Rock Climbing and Book Site (Tips about reading, relaxing and recommendations.)

What do you think of these choices? I would love to hear your comments and insights about the current market, trends or overall impression of this niches.

Any of these sound great, I am sure you can make any one of them work for you. Seems like everyone needs stress management these days, hiking and rock climbing are big activities now and that would be a great site too. I love books so I visit some book blogs myself.
What do you love to do and can write endlessly about?

I have chosen to do the make money online/work from home niche and promote WA just to check out how the whole process works. Later on I plan to choose a different niche in fresh/salt water aquariums. The problem is that I don't really have a focus for the aquarium stuff. I have used and purchased many aquarium supplies from amazon and was thinking about basic product reviews. Does that seem too boaring?

I don't think so. Product reviews are always good, and if you focus on the supplies available, it seems like that would be workable. Perhaps you could intersperse your product reviews with a few stories about aquariums -- famous ones; different types; what are most popular aquarium fish, etc. Seems to me like a good idea.

Product reviews are great and even a necessary part of any niche, but there is so much more out there than that. Think less about "products" and more about information. How about creating the ULTIMATE beginners aquarium resource where someone with no knowledge whatsoever can go to find answers from an expert (like you, perhaps?) :-)

Why not both? Banners can bring ad revenue whereas links get you affiliate commissions. Like I said, there are many ways to monetize.

BUT...

You're beginning to get ahead of yourself. For now, focus on the content. You shouldn't really be thinking about links or banners this early in the process other than a rough idea for later. At this point you should be putting out tons of killer content designed to bring in traffic.

Making money is the easy part; it's building an audience that is the challenge. Remember, you can have all the links and banners in the world, but you still won't make a dime if there are no eyeballs there to see them.

It's not necessarily that it is too broad, but I would imagine it would be too saturated. While any niche can be a good one, generally you cannot come at it straight on like that.

You need to find an "angle" that separates you from the competition. There are so many other electronics sites out there that a generic straight peripherals site would be competing with the likes of Best Buy, Wal-Mart, and Amazon.

The question is not if it is too broad, but rather how will your site stand out?

Unfortunately, that's a bit of a loaded question. You see, no one can really tell you what niche to go into because, well, no one is you.

Your niche should be something you are extremely passionate about. What hobbies and interests do you have? What special knowledge do you know? What are you an "expert" on? What topic is something you have always wanted to learn about, but never had the time? (This might just be the excuse you were looking for.)

You're going to be creating a ton of content, so it's important that you go into something that is not going to burn you out or find you bored with too quickly.

My litmus has always been what I call the "shut-up" test...

"What is the one thing you are constantly talking about -- even though you're not getting paid -- and you go on and on so much that your friends and family have to tell you to just shut up about it already?"

You can still use it if that is your passion. You just have to think outside the box and find a way in. If it were me, here's is what I would do...

1) Get off the computer. Seriously. Just find a quiet place to sit with a notepad and a pen or pencil -- NOTHING electronic. You need your brain working organically for a bit.

2) Start writing down anything and everything you can think of about computers. Don't edit or organize; just write (as fast as you can.) Get it all out of your head. Create as many ideas as can think of.

3) Now, take each one of those ideas and run it through the Alphabet Soup method, one at a time. Here's a tutorial to help: Alphabet Soup Technique - 2019 Edition 4) Once you have identified potential keywords, now start running them through Jaaxy and see what the numbers are. Using Jaaxy Like a Boss By the time you complete this process for every idea and keyword, you should have a pretty good idea of where to come in with your niche (i.e. not too big, not too small), but this should also spark some ideas on how you can be unique.

Hello, my name is Jared, my main interests are things like gaming, technology, anime and pretty much anything tech related really. But if anyone has any other good niches that may fall under categories like these please let me know. I want to be able to make passive money that I can use to support myself and be able to earn more as I go along and get better with it.

Hey! So I feel like for most people, their interests make good niches like gaming, kids, clothes etc. I'm not sure though if my abstract interests would work well. Here are some of the things I like that I don't know how to use well as a niche. I'm very interested in advice. Maybe having an advice blog but not sure how to make good money that way. Atheist content is an interest of mine. Knowledge/learning, tv series, interior design/organization maybe? I know the last could definitely work but my biggest passions, Knowledge, advice & atheism I'm not sure how they'd work. Any advice?

Kinda bogged down on widgets in lesson 8. Nothing seems to match the training video. I built a new sidebar but it never shows up on the website. Thought maybe it was the themes I’ve chosen I tried changing them, something I haven’t been trained on yet, and that only confused things more.
Up to this point this was all so easy.

Hey, I'm Annie! I'm 29, disabled & unable to work outside my home so I'm trying to find a way to generate constant income to support myself online. I came here to find out more about "Rank & Rent" but if anyone knows of a way I can make money easily, without lots of prior experience, that's fast & reliable & doesn't cost a lot to start of love to hear them! I'm not sure if these goals are reasonable through online business but I probably need like $2,000 a month to live comfortably on my own but someday making $100k a year would be a dream! Nice to meet you all!

I have been trying to figure out a niche and i cant quite find one. I am a huge nerd/gamer so i was thinking something involving that would be great. Maybe something like "best headset for my setup"
If anyone has any thoughts or suggestions on this I would greatly appreciate the help.

I'm new to all this so if this isn't helpful I'm sorry. Lol. My bf is a gamer & he watches a lot of videos on tips & tricks for success, simple getting started tutorials like which buttons do what, reviews or suggestions for what gaming mouse is best for what games, & other products like that. So maybe review different mouse options for certain kinds of games & give pros & cons, headphones, keyboards even computers & have links to each product. Does that help?

I am new and this all feels very weird to be honest.
I am a stay at home Mom and I am hoping that this is really a thing.
I have read a lot of the comments below and I feel like I am going to get a lot of follow the program do the lessons. But I am a honest real person. I have no problems putting in the work, but if I could get some insight from someone. Some real real life stores. Who are you all, what are your stores. How did everyone end up here. If this is a community share with me, please.
Hope this isn't to forward or aggressive.

I could or someone who isn't in a success story could share with me how there experience has been. Anyone who has been doing this for a few months, or a year. What lead you here and how are you doing?? How is this going for you?

Hi - I have been here 5 months, so not long enough to be earning a consistent income. I am in this for the long term commitment. Most people don't start making any income until at least the six month mark or when they have around 50 articles on their site.

I have been thinking about my niche and I wanted to to get the opinion of the group. I am a dog lover and I have owned several dogs, mainly large breeds. I have found that "large breed dogs" seemed to be to broad so I narrowed it down to "best dog for a family" any thoughts on this niche would be greatly appreciated.

Hello, I'm really into fitness so I was thinking about having resistance bands as my niche. I have Google searched resistance bands and results are only showing up really big brands like , myprotein and gymshark etc. Would this actually be a good niche as I feel like maybe a lot of people would just click on those popular websites..?

HELLO, GOOD MORNING, YESTERDAY EVENING I ASKED FOR HELP IN PICKING MY NECHE,SEEMS ARAGENT TO RFEINVENT THE WHEEL SURE YOUR EXPERIENCE IS BETTER THEN MINE, SO COULD YOU STRAIGHT AWAY GIVE ME THE NICHE THAT HAS THE LARGEST AUDIENCE, & IS IN THE HIGHEST DEMAND ON THE INTERNET, I WILL BE HAPPY WITH A QUICK PAYCHEK THEN WILL PICK SOMETHING OF INTEREST. PLEASE I AM ALL EARS

Hi - could you please turn your caps lock off? The top three niches are health, money and romance. However, there is no point trying to fool your readers by picking a subject you know nothing about in the expectation of turning a quick profit.

Please note that this is not a get rich quick scheme and requires time, effort and patience. It is unlikely you would see any income for at least 3 months or more realistically 6 months, no matter which niche you chose.

Do you really want to write articles on a subject you have no interest in for the next 6 months? Or would it be easier choosing a niche you are passionate about?

Kyle, are you able to see what we have done on our website? I was wondering if we should change a few things. There are so many areas to cover for Arthritis. My key words I think are going to be good. My poor four legged neighbour dog has arthritis in his hips and his legs shake. Could I add a niche for dogs?

Hi, I think if you have a website about Arthritis for people, I would not mix the dog part in.
Maybe in a later point of time but not in the beginning.
When you go on with the training there will be tasks to ask for feedback for your website.
I don't think Kyle has the possibility to check our websites. You would need to paste your URL anyway.
All the best, Stefan :)

Hi everyone! The second day of training. Wow, a ton of information. I picked my niche: I named my website Sparrow's Cat Products- Feeding the Cat's meow. Is this too broad of a niche? Should I narrow it down and when do we get taught how to put affiliate links on our website?

No, cat products is not too broad. My sister brought a cat home a while back. She is really stuck up. She doesn't even let me touch her - ha, ha, ha. I'm not sure about the affiliate link part of your question (will have to go through and look), but I can tell you that I just did a search for cats. One of the main things I saw was toilet-training systems - ha, ha, ha, ha, ha. Why do people want their cats to use the toilet?!? OMG!!

I’m a newbie here at WA, and and creating and owning an actual website, so I really don’t know exactly what I’m doing, but I’m doing all the necessary steps to get me through the process, and I like reading all the comments. I haven’t upgraded yet, but will do so in the coming months.

I am creating my 1st website using the WA hosting program. I am in the process of posting the Privacy Page. When I copied and pasted my URL in the required spaces, the font size of all the type after the URL space enlarged, became Bold, and moved down the page on it's own. When I attempted to return everything to the original format some of the text disappeared. I couldn't remember the lost text so I tried to discard it and start over. But the original, now useless, page won't go away. Does anyone know how to get a new Privacy Page to start over and discard the old one? I already tried using the trash bin. It deletes, but when I go back the now ruined Privacy Page returns. It reminds me of those old word processors where the text jumped all over the place all by itself.

I'm thinking about what niche to choose. My back ground is that I trained in mental health, so I find it interesting and easy to write content about issues such as anxiety and depression. There are affiliate schemes out there for treatment of anxiety etc. My question is this.
People who search for a site about anxiety are more likely to be looking for tips and advice, not necessarily to buy into products or programmes. By contrast, if I went for a product based niche like, hair brushes (just an example!), then the people who are visiting the site are most likely looking to buy.
I'd find writing a blog about mental health a lot more interesting than a product blog. But I do want to make money - that's why I'm here.
In short, can you monetize a blog about anxiety as effectively as one about hair brushes or guitars?
Thank you!

HI, welcome to WA. I am a spiritual life coach and I had the same question when I started out. I was searching in the range of webshops with spiritual products and those kinds of stuff. But honestly, as I was progressing in the training I found 'my voice' and enjoy so much the writing about Spiritual travel and meditation. I wouldn't worry about the linking of products yet. First get your momentum going, about your passion. Then you will find there are a lot more affiliates than you first knew existed. If you share your wisdom and your knowledge, you are also changing the world for the better. That should count for something too. If you write reviews on products that you would recommend as an expert in mental health, that will trigger people into buying it. First, create that expert position. And what you are an expert in, is not hairbrushes I heard you say.
Anyway, this is my opinion. Once you have people that follow your blog on regular bases, because it has value for them. They will interact with any information you give them. Even an affiliate link of WA, if that is what you would recommend getting out of solitude, when feeling depressed.
If you want more responses on your question, try writing your blog here on WA and have some of your Target Audience respond to it.
Good luck. Hope you will find all that you are looking for here.
Nanda

Thank you Nanda, That's helpful. I just watched the video on finding my niche and it did all seem quite product centred, so it's good to know that you have found a way with your own work as a life coach. Thanks again!

ok so I've done everything so far through lesson 5. Picked a niche, picked a theme, logged into the site admin set up the seo plugins etc. the site does not have any photos, content but I am assuming that the next 5 lessons will cover how to write content etc, yes?

This training is much more than the first 10 lessons :) As you progress it will take you from building your site from scratch all the way to having a professional site with quality content that ranks and converts. You can see all 5 levels that are covered in the OEC training by clicking on the Training tab.

I have a doubt. I live in india and have an account on amazon dot in website. but same login works for amazon dot com account. So can i create Amazon Associates Account for amazon dot com as well, or am i constrained to create for amazon associates account for amazon dot in only? If so, will i be paid in $ or INR?

*My question is on the website I am going to create. how many products and service can I market e.g if I to choose supplement, can I market different supplement company on my website or I can just do 1?

*How do I become an affiliate of Amazon, eBay, Walmart? After creating my website, right?

If I understood very well, affiliate (Amazon ) plays as middle man between me and company I will be selling their products?
E.g company pays Amazon for their products it will sell on their behalf then amazon hire someone like me to sell that product and pay me certain percentage after selling that products, right?

I have to think of niche because I have couple of niche I will like to make research before I actually decide which one is my lifetime niche.

I've been trying to make my own website and very frustrated with trying to set it up. So I'm going to pay someone to build it for me. I know I'm jumping ahead but are we gonna work with Click Bank here? Nothing against you guys, you're great. I just suck at building a website with content. My creativity is at an all time low right now, lol. Looking forward to getting some clarity. Thank you!!

What part are you struggling with? Cuz building a website is what all this training is about. Don't give up so quickly on yourself. Is it content creation? Future lessons deal with that. There's also a reason everyone doesn't just pay others to write their content. Paying for good quality content can get very expensive quickly if you don't go about it right, which would mean taking the time to train a full time writer to write ranking content just like you have in the past. If the struggle is in building the website itself the lessons here walk you step by step through that. Don't pay someone to do what you can get here free :)

Thanks, I just can't find a decent theme. I'm getting overwhelmed..lol. I will just keep looking for a better theme. At some point do you guys help with writing content coz I have big time writers block.

If you pay someone to build your website, you'll need to upgrade to Premium membership and purchase a domain. The free SiteRubix domains offered to Starter members are subdomains owned by WA. You will not be able to move or sell a SiteRubix website.

You should also be aware that all Starter Members' SiteRubix websites are deleted after 6 months (unless they upgrade to Premium).

Alternatively, if you upgrade and purchase your own domain, your hosting is included with your membership, and you'll have access to more than enough training and support to build your own successful online business.

I've been watching various videos on youtube about selecting good keywords and terms. Most mention that there has to be evidence that the key words can be monetized. And most also suggest that the cost per click give you an idea of whether your site will make money. Can anyone give me an idea of what price of CPC is a good price. ie, at what point does the amount indicate that a key word is valuable. Does that make sense?

the range of cpc will vary with the niche
the mmo niche will be a lot more expensive than the knitting niche, for example.
so it wil lbe a judgement call after looking through a few hundred keywords to see if it sits in an area which you think will make money.
any keyword people are bidding for will be worth going for , as long as it is relevant for your niche.
if you go too high then you may find the competition will keep you out of the top page of the serps.
but remember that the cpc is for paid traffic. the business model here is based on free traffic at the start, so the selection of keywords is slightly different - using traffic and exact match competiton numbers.
I would pick one system and try it out - if it works stick with it, if you try to combine systems you may fall down and not get anywhere with ranking.
Good luck
phil

You want to have a mix of content and intermingle your knowledge of your users and their intentions to build out your brand and content.

I've seen some internet marketing pros say you should have 80% money posts and 20% informational starting out, and that seems pretty consistent with the directions in the training.

As far as determining cost per click while you're doing keyword research, you would have to use additional keyword tools to get that data. Money keywords include Reviews, X vs. Y (comparisons), or Best ofs. Informational are how to's, list posts, and so on.

CPC is going to vary based on your niche and based on the niche of the products you'll be promoting/reviewing. It will vary greatly. It could be as low as $0.10 per click and as high as $30 or more per click--it really depends. You'd have to explore those possibilities within your niche.

CPC will vary based on niche. A $1 CPC might be good for one niche, while a $10 CPC might be good for another niche.

Also, I disagree with the advice that all pages you write need to have a good CPC. Many posts you write can rank and get traffic, then DRIVE visitors to more important pages. CPC can be an indicator of interest in a specific phrase/topic, but it's not the thing I'd use to make the final call on whether or not to write a post.

Hello WA community. I have a LOT of questions after this basic tutorial. There seems to be several steps missing with regard to niche, website development and affiliates.
1. Will I own this website once I've created it or is it a subsidiarity of WA whereby I would only be able to earn money as long as I'm a member of WA?
2. Are there macros available to pull from when creating the website for operational use or am I responsible for all of the data entry?
3. Is there cumulative data available regarding specific niches or are we responsible for the R & D portion with regard to this?
4. How does one ensure that their target market is not overlapping with another WA marketer in their geographical area?
5. How do I ensure I'm maximizing WA's resources so that my application is clear, consistent and user friendly for potential buyers without the physical appearance of a "redirected affiliate/site"?
6. Ultimately I'd like to know if there are pre-existing templates for me to use throughout the development phase within this platform.
7. Finally, how many questions am I permitted to ask before you lose your patients with me? lol

I sincerely appreciate all of your time in advance and look forward to hearing everyone's input, thank you everyone!

Thanks for the great video I understood everything and now I'm going to think about a niche. I was thinking of going the WA boot camp route, but there has to be tons of people in there by now. I think I'll choose a niche and go back to the WA affiliate training later.

Awesome, sounds like you are moving right along here. A small fraction of people actually ever go through bootcamp, but I always recommend choosing a niche and direction that you are interested/passionate about. :)

I just finished the choose your niche video, and it was great!! But I'm still having trouble getting my niche specific I'm leaning towards Star Wars but don't know what to choose help would be VERY much appreciated

Another question have any of you premium members gotten enough revenue from your first two free websites to sign-up for premium and not have to pay THAT much out of pocket for it? I know it seems like I'm being cheap but there's just no way I can pay for it, but KNOW that I could benefit from it immensely.

Hi Jason,
Picking your niche can be hard at times. As odd as it may sound Star Wars is a very large niche. Can you see about narrowing it down, maybe hard to find collectibles or even focusing on action figures or the books, etc.

As for the making money part... This is not a quick return program. I can happen but realistically you're looking at time to build up a following and authority before you really start to make money.

I know it's a lot but if you can swing it look at the annual option. You pay it all up front but you don't have to worry about making the monthly payment and it saves you almost $20 per month.

Just wanna find out, Does WA strictly teach only Affiliate Marketing,or can you also help with creating my own products off of other products out there, and how and where to market and sell them? Asking coz i almost joined SFM (too good to be true) and this was another thing they said they teach how to do.

We can help you with creation of your own products, but that shouldn't be a consideration until you first have an audience. The idea that creating a product would even be something taught within the first year makes no sense.

Don't build it before they come, build an audience and a reputation, then you can seamless build out your own products and services and have people to sell to them.

We are an affiliate/internet marketing company, we can teach you anything you need to know through the platform, 10,000's of experts, 1,000's of training modules, and over 400 hours of live classes.

Hi If you choose niche which is quite specific - how many affiliate programs should you be looking to join. I think I have chosen something but there doesn't seem a lot of programs compared to some of the others. Although I do think it is something that will be popular here.

Hiya
From what I have learned, a specific niche is the best route to take. As far as affiliate programs are concerned, Kyle advises us "not to leave money on the table", what that means is that when we write products reviews we make sure that we have affiliate links to those products. So, I guess the answer is that you join the affiliate programs that suit your niche - so long as there is nothing wrong or negative with the products and services they provide (as in bad which will give your site a bad reputation), then you sign up with them.
Hope that helps.
Blessings
Louise

Hello from Nottingham! You can join as many affiliate programs as you wish. You can search in Google by typing this exact phrase - niche + affiliate programs (obviously substituting "niche" with your chosen subject).

Hi Guys i went thru "the how to make money online" I understood that you can make money with offering products linked to big online companies (eg Amazon) . I'm just wondering if I would be able to make money with blogs and getting subscribed? Also is there a list of which online company is using wa and what are their commission rates? Or am I supposed to ask them ,if so how?

Hi - you can use any affiliate program that you wish, there isn't a list, they are independent of WA. Once you have built your website, you have to apply to join affiliate programs. Commission rates will vary, and you need to read the terms and conditions of each program.

You can search for them in Google this way - niche + affiliate program.

Hi - yes, definitely. Readers will soon realise if you have no interest in your subject and will look elsewhere. If you have experience in your niche, you can build up trust with your visitors, and they will take heed of your advice and recommendations.

It is good to be here at Wealthy Affiliate. I am new in the platform and looking forward to learn from everyone.

I will ask questions where I don't understand as I go through training and navigate in dashboard but Kyle Video have enlighten me. It is a blessing to be around people with same vision as you. To be a successful online entrepreneur to the physical world.

I don't have experience in online business but I am going to do my best to learn as much as I can so that I can succeed and make decent and legit money and help others.

Hello so as I am going the video about Choosing a Niche the general concept that keeps coming to mind for me is Christianity/ Spirituality and I was wondering if I could have a narrow but broad niche such as promoting Christianity books/ devotional (plans) and Courses as one niche. Because through my search they kinda go hand and hand.

You can use that as a niche and if that can be narrowed down even more so it would be better. The idea is to keep the niche fairly targeted. Like if someone wanted to do a niche about Pets they would be better off if their niche was just dogs or cats or fish, etc...

Just go through the training step by step.
Trust me it absolutely works!
I made the mistake of thinking I need to work on other things to get ahead and made tons of mistakes when I started.
It might not seem like it as you follow, but every aspect will be covered.
The best of success to you!
Mike

Thanks you for this wonderful information. I was a bit confused about where and how to start, and like you i thought it would be a difficult task. To my surprise... and task completion, it is becoming increasingly doable.

So I just finished my about me and my privacy policy. Moving straight into the menu section. However, it does not show the privacy page in the established menu section like it does in his video. Is this normal? I went out and back in through the site manager but that did not change it.

hey guys, I'm struggling a little. Kyle uses basketball related examples in the getting started tutorials but my niche isn't related at all. My niche is men's footwear, and I'm not sure how to set up my website. For people trying to sell more product related stuff, what does your website look like exactly?

are your posts things like "top ten men's shoes 2019" and then a list with affiliate links? or is it more like an online store? i have no idea what a website will look like for my niche

The structure remains exactly the same - it's only the topic that changes. With regards to content you simply want to be producing content that's both relevant to your products & relevant to what people are searching... Some quick fire examples could be "what is the best shoe for hiking", "what is the best shoe to prevent blisters"... Offer great content, then recommend a great product to fit... And boom, job done.

You need to continue to build out your website. You have to add your privacy page and your about me post.

Your niche is wide. Men's footwear is a very wide niche. You should try to narrow it down to something more specific in the men's footwear.

If you do not have your own products to sell, then you will have to become an affiliate of companies that sell men's footwear. You can then write reviews of their footwear and recommend them to your visitors when you start getting traffic to your website. You will then receive commissions when your visitors purchase the footwear you recommend. You can also write about problems within your niche and make recommendations that will solve those problems.

that is a wide niche you are going for there Righter.
but split down into narrow niches and concentrating on one at a time you maybe able to build your audience.
people looking for information on how to select shoes and what size to get, what do the sizes mean and what are the differences worldwide.
what are the types of dress shoe, are there any which must be worn at certain times, or not.
start looknig for problems within the men's footwear niche.
and you will start to find article titles.
where do you look, on facebook, answerthepublic, jaaxy and forums where they are asking about footwear.
you can then recommend a type and link to an affiliate page for sizing and possibly colour.
As Kyle says ' answer the question ' i want to help ______' ' and you will be most of the way there to selecting a niche.
Good luck
phil

Is it better to have your own website or to just run funnels to promote the product, or your to lead them to your website?
The reason I say this is you can have a lot of different funnels and change them frequently. Ware changing a website or base page might confuse the customers you all ready have? At the same time I feel that since I have been doing or trying Affiliate marketing for more than a year. And it does take two to three years to build up a list of customers or leads to sell your affiliates products to. What do you recommend to cut start up cost because just being a member of wealthy affiliates for two or three years is going to cost over 1,700 before seeing anything and that's not guaranteed in anyway. And to be honest that does not include the total cost of becoming a affiliate marketer at all. I also believe some people get into affiliate marketing and they run out of funds or want to make money fast or get rich scam. They see how easy it is to confuse or scam honest people trying to learn how to become affiliate marketers buy selling them worthless information or ebooks and systems that don't work or will never work because the person selling them has never succeeded in internet marketing themself or they sell you old Solo add or leads that didn't work for them that they bought at a lower cost and so on. So they can get there money back and when they see how easy it is and take that route instead of doing it the legit and honest way. I have a feeling if or when they take that route that hurts affiliate marketing so bad that it possibly can be the cause of it getting shut down or outlawed. At the sametime I think they might have problems sleeping at night and it probably takes years off there life causing medical problems why I don't know.

Hey Alden, it really depends on which business model you follow.
What you are talking about is more email marketing, whereas here you are taught more of an affiliate marketing model.
To cut your costs here, i would be looknig at going yearly as soon as poss- $359 rather than $49 per month and if you can pick up the black friday deal if it is still at $299 per year.
if you stick in one niche and create evergreen material then you don't need to keep changing your deals and driving traffc to the latest products.
you will start to get ranked in google and get more organic traffic - yes you can pay for traffic, but the best qualified traffic maybe the traffic which is looking for your offer.
so this business model maye a longer term strategy to add to your business.
As you say - if you are looknig for a fast turnaround then this may not be the right solution for you.
but if you can stick it out then it may help you build a portfolio of passive income.
good luck
phil

Hi there, I signed up with WA after conducting a search about List Launch Pro. Since I only signed up yesterday it's very early days but I'm impressed with the structure of WA. Obviously there is pressure to upgrade to Premium. My question: If I upgrade will I then be asked to upgrade to Premium Plus (or something similar) at some stage or does Premium provide absolutely everything? Thanks

Hi - premium gives you access to absolutely everything on this platform, there are no other levels. The only extra payment is if you wish to purchase a .com domain. If you join within 7 days, your first month subscription is $19, followed by monthly payments of $49. You can cancel at any time, but then you lose access to this platform, you can't go back to being a starter member.

Unlike other Hyped online business training programs, W.A makes anything clear, no hidden fees, no upsells,and the cost of going premium is way cheaper affordable... that any serious person in building a business can manage it... Am an independent person, speaking my independent experience from W. A to any starter like I was at start

when writing out content logs is it okay to site studies you have found on other websites like CNN and it is okay to use news and information about celebrities you found on news sites as long as as you put where you found it and adding the link? Or do you need some type of permission from that other page to do so? I

Absolutely. Linking to external sources to support your article is actually one of the SEO tricks that Jay teaches. It's highly effective and can help you gain authority quickly. Just be sure to have the link open in a new window so you're not sending them away from your site with no way to get back.

no Tamara37, I don't think you do need permissions and really you are doing them a favor to send traffic to them true the link that you insert on your blogs/articles/posts ..right? so I believe most of the Sites will be thankful:o)
( be careful if you use other site pictures yeah...as most of them have copyright unless they come with the link that you are suggesting )
have a good weekend

its kinda sad how you can say all these things like all the other websites similar to mine just want your money, so you use one of the biggest human flaws (trust in others) to make it seem like your giving away something free, but really you just allow false narrative's and the already dumbed down internet users to get tricked into paying for premium packages. lol lol lol

Not sure what you are referring to. WA is not like any other platform. I've been involved in internet avenues fo the last 10 years. The money paid for the Premium platform is worth it and more. Of course we all want to earn income. The journey at WA is unique in the sense that the people that set the program up, Kyle and Carson...do care about you and about me. The community as in this Live Chat are for the most part caring people that give their time to help newbies like me, lol, I wish you well on this journey.

im not hate'n, i already have a website similar to this one. i even have small print on the home page that says how your basically buying a scam so you can learn to scam. but hey i still get paid for doing absolutely nothing but ramble on and on in text to make it sound interesting.

this is pretty exciting!! how many times have we typed into google a question and we get an answer??? we can be one of the websites with the answers! from cat claw tips to hair ribbons...so many choices!! how many niches would you suggest we come up with at first?

My chosen niche is strategy board games. During my keywords search I'm receiving drastically varied results, which I assume is normal, but have a quick question on which factors weigh more heavily on the good or bad side.

The two most drastic examples are as follows:

(Keyword) Chess -
764,995 average searches per month and 99QSR

(Keyword) Best War Strategy Board Games -
112 average searches per month and 9 SQR

Now obviously since there are (I'm fairly sure) 10 results on the first page of a Google search if I were to get ranked with the latter I'm on the first page 100+ times per month. But does the shear volume of the former search outweigh the visibility of the latter?

Hi,
Your lessons are very informative and I plan to listen to them all, if for no other reason, to sharpen up my skills. I have some experience with the subject matter and I have some experience building websites and promoting affiliate websites.

My interest is building out an idea of mine and turning it into a paid membership website--does WA provide templates for and host membership websites?

And yes, we provide you with a full website platform, with a suite of many different tools to help you simplify what were once complex processes. These are industry leading tools on our state of the art hosting platform (which is included within your membership).

You can have a membership if you like, but before you build that I would first establish your audience and your brand. The cart before the horse.

ok, I got my front page up on my website and posted about the site. I'm not sure what ells to do after that point. I changed my design a few well, many times till I got what I was happy with. But, Anyway is that all I was supposed to do with this part of the lesson before I go on?

@Kyle i was not able to retreive our previous discussion on my chosen niche : Personal Development.
You were saying it's a trap niche.
My passion is to help people from all age all nation to figth through there challenges in life. For instance helping young folks not to abandon shcool. How do i move ahead with that here. Help me.

Sure, you could head in that. Just "challenges" could mean just about anything, to anyone. But if this is the direction that you want to head and what resonates with you being your direction, by all means! :)

Hey everyone! Is anyone using avventura theme? Under the top menu there is a sort of sliding menu(?) not sure if its right to call it that, but it has like a title for a page and a background photo, and I can't figure out how to upload a photo for that background. has anyone used that theme?

Your video gives pretty good info about niches and finding a niche but
I would prefer that you give us a method to research niches, info about resources and tools available online to help in the niche research, find data, audience size, trends, demographic etc
some steps to go through to choose a niche.

The thing is, all niches have a ton of opportunity within them. There are 3.75 BILLION people online and we are all now more connected than ever. This is the audience you are dealing with the Internet and even some of the most obscure niches have millions of people interested in them.

You should read about this here within a blog post I recently created on this exactly topic: Is my niche a profitable one? YOU make a niche profitable and that is why it is important that you decide on a niche that you are interested in/passionate about. It will make the journey that much more fun and exciting. ;)

hi their im a newbie her in WA and im just wondering about this online business . Is this some kind of promoting and doing some kind of blog with a certain product? and if so,what if im not good at doing a blog does that mean this is not for me?:c
thanks for all who will answer to my concern

Hi - this is a learning platform that teaches you how to build a professional website ready for affiliate marketing. You choose a subject you are passionate about and write blog posts to attract visitors, who may purchase any products you are promoting, to earn you a commission.

The writing is easier than you think, and you will learn techniques to help you. Take a look at the training and follow it step by step, it takes you through the entire process.

Hi, It is a learning platform that teaches you how to chose a niche, build a website, drive traffic to it and monetize from it.
the training are step by step and easy to follow for anyone.
Highly recommend to stick with it and build a business for yourself
Geni

If you don't feel confident writing your own blog posts you can hire freelance writers to write them for you. There are some budget sites with freelancers with adequate writing skills. I follow people on Twitter whose first language isn't English but they are communicating useful information, and if the reader wants the information they have to accept the writer's skill level. There are many entrepreneurs who started off with basic English skills but they did not let this stop them.

That is exactly what you are going to learn as you move through the training. I have spent some time breaking down the process in the most simplistic way possible. Success online is at the core a 4 step process and I have broken them down within this video: How to Create an Online Business - The 4 Steps Broken, down, the process looks like this:

Okay gang. I am in need of some help. I purchased a .com domain already but am creating my webpage in lesson 7 under the siterubix. When I am creating the privacy page should I go ahead and insert the .com domain or the siterubix domain? I may be jumping ahead here but my thought was that I ultimately want to publish it under the .com domain. HELP!

At this point I would just plug it into the rubix site so everything stays together and organized. When you are ready to move everything over to the .com it's super simple and you can move it all at once :-)

Hi, I am wondering if I will be able to promote my independent wellness business from my website. It’s MLM business.
How can using WA help with this? My quest to find a way to improve the business linked me with WA site 😆
I hope it helps.

Hello! You can promote whatever you like on your website. The Online Entrepreneur Certification will teach you how to drive traffic to your offers and how to monetize your website--those skills will be transferrable to any business. Added to that, you'll also see that there is live training that adds additional skills onto what you'll learn in the certification. Best wishes with your business.

I don't see why it wouldn't work, as long as you're willing to write unique content for your blog. Maybe long reviews of your products? The WA method really depends on ranking in Google through promotion of your own unique content, so it's not going to work if you're just promoting a storefront with nothing added.

I am also doing MLM I find the best way is to create articles for you would be health and wellness as well as some reviews on various products and your personal results. I chose to provide reviews on some competitors i keep them honest and why my choice is better than other choices. I also create a win win situation by becoming an affiliate of my other reviews so that if my reader chose their product above my MLM choice I still get rewarded. Hope this helps to give you some ideas for your content.